Anthony Lopez
New York/New Jersey
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Summary of Qualifications:

• Linux and Windows systems architect and administrator, with 10 years of experience, specializing in high availability web server and database architectures.
• Corporate IT director (4 years experience) managing all technical infrastructure, support, and budgeting for 130 staff, including local and satellite offices.
• Experience managing teams, leading projects, disaster recovery, writing budgets, procuring vendors, and negotiating contracts.

Technical Skills:

• Red Hat, CentOS, Apache, MySQL, Amazon EC2 & S3, LVM, NFS, PHP, Samba, Bind, Squid, Memcached, Perl & Shell Scripting, VMware WS, VsFTP, Subversion, Trac, Nagios, Munin, Cacti, NetBackup, Sendmail, Postfix, Dovecot, Exchange, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Spam Assassin, Symantec AV, Postini, EMC cx-500 SAN, Infrant NAS, Promise & Dell DAS, IIS, Active Directory, DNS, Group Policy, WSUS, RAS/VPN, MS Office, SQL Server
• Prior experience: Cisco 7200/3640 routers & ASA/PIX firewalls, Veritas VCS & VFS, Squid, Oracle, SQLite

Professional Experience:

Director of Site Operations, CafeMom.com (CMI Marketing, Inc.)
1/2006 – Present

Manage the operations team of 6 direct reports and directly support the engineering team of 15 developers.  Propose and implement new technology and establish policies to ensure efficient and secure operations to support a social network with 100MM page views per month.

• Lead architect in designing website infrastructure.
• Moved co-lo to a new facility which resulted in $180,000 in annual savings.
• Setup Amazon EC2 servers for scaling our image server processing.
• Setup website development environment using Subversion, Apache, and Samba.
• Moved Sun and Oracle servers to an open source platform utilizing LAMP resulting in reduced costs.
• Setup EMC cx-500 SAN to replace Sun A500 SAN.
• Wrote custom scripts for monitoring email provider deferral and blocking, admin task automation, and others.
• Setup data warehouse using EMC cx-500 SAN and LVM.
• Wrote custom tools for automating MySQL backups and archiving with merge tables.
• Moved system and network monitoring from WhatsUpGold to Nagios.
• Setup Munin and Cacti to analyze resource trends and suggest improvements.
• Implemented functional partitioning in MySQL to meet website and storage requirements.
• Setup Memcached to offload read traffic from our database servers.
• Setup Citrix Presentation server to support 3 regional sales offices.
• Maintain the co-lo with responsibility for network architecture and operating performance.
• Implemented disaster recovery operation procedures.
• Moved network operations to a managed service provider to free up staff resources.
• Implemented VMware workstation for access to multiple OS/browser combinations for QA.
• Set annual goals and expectations for operations team.

IT Manager, ClubMom.com (CMI Marketing, Inc.)
1/2004 – 1/2006

Managed IT staff of 3 direct reports and provided help desk support for 120 staff.  Ensured availability the company’s Cisco network, Nortel telephony, and Windows systems to support all business functions.

• Replaced Nortel Symposium with Avaya Contact Call Center.
• Implemented new hire and termination processes to ensure system, application, and network security.
• Created a contract procedure to alert us of contract expirations and renewal dates which resulted in timely renewal negotiations and increased cost savings.
• Implemented Postini to provide spam and virus protection which resulted in increased employee productivity.
• Managed Symantec NetBackup for system backups, off-site backups, and disaster recovery.
• Led the upgrade of all Windows NT servers to Windows Server 2003, Exchange Server 2003, and desktops to XP.
• Migrated RT ticketing software to Trac.
• Implemented Trac wiki for documenting system administration procedures, standard operating procedures, and knowledge base.
• Successfully recovered company data from tape after a database crash while staying positive and keeping the team motivated.
• Implemented communication policies to alert the company’s staff regarding pertinent IT operational activities.
• Responded to escalated help desk issues and interacted with staff on all levels to help resolve IT-related issues.
• Trained help desk staff on dealing with all support issues including application failures, PC & OS repairs, email assistance, installation of software, resolution of peripheral, and telecommunication problems.
• Initiated an internship program to help support full-time IT staff resulting in higher overall team productivity.

IT Coordinator, ClubMom.com (CMI Marketing, Inc.)
1/2003 – 1/2004

Supported office IT systems for a staff of 150, including PCs, file servers, printers, ghosting, upgrades, and documentation.

• Created MS Access database for asset management and reporting.
• Trained users on techniques to speed-up their work on MS Office.
• Organized moving the company’s offices and IT to a new location.

Systems Administrator, National Satellite Data
1/2000 – 1/2003

Managed all IT systems and provide support for a company of 15 employees, including webservers, printers, DNS, helpdesk, and PC’s.

• Developed company’s and client’s websites using HTML and Flash.
• Creating presentation materials.
• Moved co-lo facility resulting in increased reliability and client satisfaction.
• Moved company’s offices and IT to a new location.

Education/Training

University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY
BA, Computer Science, December 2000
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), 2008

SANS Institute LAMP – “Secure Internet Presence” training
Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices training
Building Scalable Networks training
Mountain Lakes – Advanced Communication Training

Affiliations

National Eagle Scout Association, Eagle Scout 1994
New York MySQL users group

Additional Language Proficiency

Fluent in Spanish